40: Three Patients
"Si Yu, do you think we made complete fools of ourselves this time?" Xia Xia lay on the hospital bed, staring at the snow-white ceiling with vacant eyes.
Beside her, Lu Siyu, wrapped in bandages all over her body, gazed at the ceiling with the same expression. After hearing Xia Xia's question, she opened her mouth and answered in a hoarse voice, "Definitely. Complete fools."
Not only had they failed to catch the item, they'd been beaten like children, and in the end it was only because those people spared their lives that they could now lie here.
If those two weirdos had wanted to take their lives at that time, they'd probably be drinking tea and chatting in heaven right now.
"Are we really A-level ability users? Why did those two people beat us like we were children?" Xia Xia was completely puzzled. She had thought about it for an entire day but couldn't understand why she had been toyed with so easily.
Three A-level ability users! And three honor students at that! Yet they were just pressed to the ground and trampled on like this. How could Xia Xia not feel uneasy?
Were all the criminals in Central City this badass? Especially that one in black clothes called Little Bai—one against two, complete domination.
Xia Xia knew her frontal combat ability wasn't great, so being beaten was normal for her. But Lu Siyu and the blonde were genuine combat-type ability users.
And their combat power was among the top tier of A-level ability users. Then what happened? That black-clothed person didn't even use abilities, just relied on fists to beat both of them unconscious within a few minutes.
If the opponent had gotten serious and used abilities, the three of them would probably have been instantly killed.
"Central City—hidden dragons and crouching tigers." Lu Siyu looked completely confused. She had thought her abilities were already quite good, that she was a qualified hero, but cold reality told her she was still very green.
Just chasing a thief had led them to encounter two absurdly powerful enemies. Could it be that their luck was just that bad, encountering some of Central City's most formidable villains on their first official mission?
"What about the blonde? How is he now?" Xia Xia asked. This room only had her and Lu Siyu, while the blonde, being male, was staying in another room.
"I'm doing great, but you two don't look so good." Just as Xia Xia finished speaking, the blonde's voice rang out from outside the door.
The door opened, and the blonde with bruises still on his face limped in. "That black-clothed person really went hard on us. She almost disfigured this handsome face of mine."
"You recovered pretty fast." Xia Xia pouted. She and Lu Siyu were still lying in bed unable to move, but this guy could already get up and move around freely. The difference in physical constitution was really more than just a little.
Lu Siyu felt this even more strongly. She and the blonde had both been pummeled by that black-clothed person, and that black-clothed person obviously had no consciousness about being gentle with the fairer sex, so Lu Siyu's beating wouldn't have been any lighter than the blonde's.
But having taken the same beating, the blonde was now mostly recovered while she had to continue lying here. Really, comparing people could make you die of anger.
"My ability is like this—I'm resistant to beatings." The blonde thumped his chest and said boldly, "Oh right, the Association gave us a new mission."
"What? Giving missions to us three patients?" Upon hearing the word "mission," Xia Xia immediately bristled. "What mission can the three of us do in our current state?"
They couldn't all go out with one crutch each, could they?
People who didn't know might think some disabled people had escaped from somewhere.
"The Association said this mission isn't urgent and we can wait until we've recovered from our injuries to do it." The blonde quickly explained. At first, when he learned of the Association's decision, he had also been very dissatisfied, but after hearing the specific requirements of the mission, his dissatisfaction had dissipated.
"Our mission is to investigate what happened that night. The Association said the ones who intercepted us that night were the famous Black and White Duo of Central City. Their abilities are no weaker than S-level ability users, so our failure was natural."
"But the black-clothed person we were chasing that night stole something from Parliament Member Wang Ziwen, and that thing seems quite important to that Member Wang. Member Wang is still furious about it."
Xia Xia was even more puzzled. If that was the case, shouldn't they directly dispatch the teams on standby? Why have the three of them patients go?
"What does this have to do with sending us three?"
"Cough cough, Xia Xia, you don't know—that guy surnamed Wang has a terrible relationship with our Association. The Association can't be bothered to help him find his stuff." The blonde grinned. "But we still need to keep up appearances, right?"
"Got it, we three are that appearance." Lu Siyu nodded. She understood what the Association meant. "We're just standing there watching Member Wang bustle about, and if possible, give him some trouble, right?"
"That feels kind of evil. Isn't it bad for us heroes to do this?" Xia Xia still had some conscience.
"No no, the Association told us to fully cooperate, not to sabotage." The blonde quickly corrected Lu Siyu's improper thinking. "But cooperation, well, we'll have to wait until we recover and are discharged from the hospital."